Posted on 02/01/2025 12:40:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In January, President Donald Trump returned to the White House, facing a world that is arguably more complicated than when he left the building four years earlier. The war in Ukraine, which will enter its fourth year in February, will take much of Trump’s time as he begins to craft and sell a detailed plan to cease the fighting and negotiate a peace settlement that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin can live with. China, the aspiring hegemon that seeks to displace the United States as the world’s foremost power, will be a constant challenge for Trump’s administration as it was for former President Joe Biden’s. U.S.-European relations will be a challenge as well, thanks to Trump’s infatuation with tariffs as a tactic to extract economic concessions, as well as the president’s commitment to decadeslong wariness watching Uncle Sam carry the security of the entire continent on his back.
It’s the Middle East, however, where things could get particularly dicey. This region hasn’t been especially kind to the U.S. or its presidents over the last two decades. Of course, much of this displeasure is self-induced: The Washington foreign policy establishment has an ingrained belief in its own brilliance and is all too willing to succumb to hubris about the extent of its power, influence, and ability to will the Middle East to its preferences....
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The thing about an unpredictable force in play is it causes all other players on the field to exercise caution and not do rash acts.
Mindless babble from someone getting text filed before deadline.
Trump is 60% focused on monumental deportation numbers.
20% will be on Ukraine, with his only goal elimination of $100B+ money flow out of the US. Operative word, “only”.
20% on China. NOT TAIWAN. China.
Trump is about America First. This is smashing all the pontificators of foreign policy who have to earn their keep with text about the whichness of what. They know nothing. They should largely be paid for nothing.
After years of lies and broken promises by politicians, the people calling Trump “unpredictable” after the majority voted for him to close the borders, eject alien criminals, get rid of government employees padding the budgets for nothing and for him to defy the woke gender and climate change restrictions on appliances and gas vehicles, when he actually does it they are shocked.
No it not. It the same world that was embolden by the Biden regime complete lack of anything resembling a spine or a strategy
Trump understands, and is willing to use, all of the US vast powers economic, diplomatic and military. Something no President, captured by the DC machine, has understood for 30 years.
There is no complexity here. That notion is just the same old willful blindness of the DC political machine to every do anything other then build bureaucratic kingdoms and find new ways to enrich themselves at taxpayer expense.
He’s not unpredictable if you follow along. He pretty much says what his beliefs are and acts on them. He’s just unpredictable to the morons who think the way it has been for the last 30 or 40 years is the only way.
He’s unpredictable to the ankle biters used to getting their way with nobody to smack their mouths and tell them you want your money back.
I think Trump is actually somewhat predictable.
When they say “unpredictable” they really mean “uncontrollable by us.”
MAGA is NOT unpredictable and says it all.
Exactly.
In the Middle East things could get dicey. This region hasn’t been especially kind to the U.S. or its presidents. The Washington foreign policy establishment has an ingrained belief in its own brilliance and a willingness to succumb to hubris about the extent of its power and influence. The Middle East has a tried and true formula to get foreign aid tax dollars.....uttering the word “peace” at regular intervals.
“Peace” in the Middle East has been a pipe dream for about a thousand years........there’s a
huge price tag on “peace,” with the US taxpayer gamely trying to meet the latest “peace price.”
Netanyahu to Trump: “Can you top this?”
<><>During the 2024 election year, Biden blanketed Israel w/ $17.9 billion peace-keeping tax dollars in that one year alone, saying, “Nobody has done more for Israeli peace than I have.”
<><>Since 1973, Israel has received more than $120 billion US tax dollars in
peace-filled MILITARY assistance alone, including “three special aid” peace packages.
<><>billions for signing the Israel-Egypt peace treaty
<><>billions for Israel’s peaceful withdrawal from the Sinai.
<><>billions for peaceful redeployment of Israeli forces
<><>$5 billion tax dollars rebuilding Israeli air bases in the Negev.
Besides peace-making weaponry, Israel also receives peace-keeping economic and humanitarian foreign aid, which supports broad peaceful economic development and socio-political stability and can include peaceable non-military support related to the country’s pressing security needs.
The KAOS comes from letting ‘Rats and Assistant ‘Rats rule.
Correct.
That is right.
Unpredictable only to those who have not been paying attention and those who live in their own Unicorn Fart based fantasy world.
btt
He’s only unpredictable if you’ve been ignoring what he’s said for the last two years.
TRUMP ANTHEM:
FAFO
“Trump understands, and is willing to use, all of the US vast powers economic, diplomatic and military. Something no President, captured by the DC machine, has understood for 30 years.”
What the world doesn’t understand is the minute Trump ramps up domestic oil production, they are screwed.
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